Therapeutic, preventive and simply refreshing aloe vera drink - properties, recipes

Aloe belongs to the Asphodel family, a genus of succulents. Its main distinguishing feature is juicy and fleshy green mass.

A variety of useful properties makes the plant indispensable for use in traditional medicine, cosmetology. A drink is also prepared from the juice of the plant, which has a beneficial therapeutic effect on all body systems.

What is this remedy and what is its use?

Aloe (Aloe) - a decorative unpretentious plant. Many grow it on window sills. The benefits of an aloe flower drink are hard to overestimate. The liquid has anti-inflammatory and regenerative properties, is a natural antioxidant, and also:

• It has a general strengthening effect;
• increases the strength of the immune system;
• promotes rapid healing of wounds;
• It has a mild laxative effect.

Healing properties

Aloe drink is a natural antibacterial agent. It removes dangerous bacteria from the body, helps in the fight against tubercle bacillus and staphylococci, and is suitable for washing the throat and nasal instillation. The liquid helps with poisoning, removes toxins, normalizes the intestines and stomach, and improves metabolism.

It is also used to improve bowel function. Due to the excellent antiseptic and wound healing properties, the drink is used for burns and wounds (for how to use aloe for burns, read here). Plant juice is widely used in the cosmetic industry in the production of creams for face, hands and body skin (how to prepare a cosmetic product from aloe?).

Chemical composition

The drink contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals necessary for humans. There are more than 75 nutrients in the finished product, more than 20 mineral substances, more than 20 amino acids. The composition also includes:

• B vitamins: B1, B2, B6, B12;
• vitamin A;
• vitamins of group C, E;
• salicylic and folic acid;
• an abundance of trace elements (copper, calcium, potassium, zinc, iron, manganese).

What diseases and how to apply?

Can and how to use it for prevention?

Liquid has a general beneficial effect on the body. It is an excellent tonic and preventative.

For prevention, you can prepare the following recipes.

• Prevention of stomach diseases.
  1. Mix 500 drinks from aloe flower with 500 g of honey, warm the mixture in a water bath.
  2. Add 500-600 ml of grape red wine.
  3. Insist a week.

  Drink the resulting drink for 3 weeks. In the first week, 1 tsp. 3 times a day, in the second and third - 1 tbsp. 3 times a day.

• To maintain immunity. Mix aloe juice, lemon juice, honey, chopped nuts (200-250 g each) in a 1: 1 ratio. Consume 1 tsp. 3 times a day before meals.

Step-by-step recipe for cooking at home

There are a number of general rules for any recipe. They concern the preparation of aloe. You need to use the lower leaves, the tips of which are slightly dried out. They are enriched with useful elements. Torn leaflets should be left to be stored for 12 hours in a cool place (shelves of the refrigerator are suitable). The optimum temperature is 6-8 degrees. After extraction, aloe leaves should be thoroughly washed.

With pieces of plant

Ingredients: aloe leaves, orange and water.

1. Carefully remove the top plate from the sheet, if there is a yellow layer - be sure to remove it. There remains a transparent dense mass - aloe gel.
2. Aloe gel needs to be cut into pieces. To keep the squares better, they can be frozen a little.
3. Squeeze the juice of orange.
4. Add slices of aloe gel in orange juice, add water. We are waiting for complete dissolution and the drink is ready.

With lemon

You need to cut the sheet along and remove the gel. Quickly place it in a blender and chop.

From the remaining sheet you need to squeeze the juice.

Next, squeeze the lemon juice, mix the ingredients and add water.

With honey

1. We cut off the leaves, put them in the refrigerator for 7-12 days, after the expiration of the term we take out the leaves, rinse.
2. Removes the green part, we get the gel. We cut it, grind it in a blender.
3. To better dissolve honey, it can be heated in a water bath.
4. Mix aloe vera, liquid honey, lemon juice and water.
5. Stir, cover tightly and let it brew.

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The benefits of ready-made store tools

The juice has a bitter taste in taste, so manufacturers add sugar and juices of various fruits (mango, orange, bananas). Unfortunately, as a result of such additives, the healing properties of the drink are markedly reduced. Therefore, it is difficult to say about some benefits of using a store tool.

General benefits of store drinks:

• variety of flavors;
• availability (can be bought at any store);
• wide range of prices;
• excellent thirst quenching.

Among the disadvantages - drinks have practically no medicinal properties, a number of restrictions on consumption. It is not recommended to drink it to pregnant and lactating women, people with diabetes. It is forbidden to drink a drink with an allergy to aloe.

What is included in their composition?

1. Aloe flower classic vegetable drink. The composition contains concentrated aloe juice, chamomile, lemon juice and nicotinic acid.
2. Aloe vera light. Purified water, aloe pulp, corn syrup, acidity regulator and gellan gum stabilizer.
3. With aloe vera and DELLOS pomegranate. Purified water, aloe pulp, corn syrup, sugar, pomegranate juice, acidity regulator, gellan gum stabilizer.

So, a drink from an aloe flower is an excellent medicine and prophylactic. But do not forget that like any other medicinal substance, such a drink has its contraindications. Before use, be sure to consult a specialist.

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